Global warming, climate change, activism
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Media on Mar 27th, 2009
Don’t forget. Earth Hour is Saturday, March 28, 2009 — between 8:30 and 9:30 pm in your time zone. Turn out the lights, shut off the power. Light candles. Be quiet and still. Spend the hour with your family. Connect with each other, share stories. Talk. And then get angry. Get informed. We are staring [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Global Warming Myths on Mar 20th, 2009
This is just one of an excellent series by Greenman (Peter Sinclair) explaining why climate scientists have their knickers in a knot over disappearing Arctic sea ice. We have two main problems — and many smaller ones — that occur when arctic sea ice melts. One is that the high arctic has worked as a [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Solutions on Mar 18th, 2009
The Dutch are doing more than putting their fingers in the dykes; the prospect of global warming and a melting Greenland has convinced the government in the Netherlands to spend $1.3 billion US per year over the next century on massive infrastructure projects. The reason is simple, as most readers know: One-quarter of this venerable [...]
Posted in Activism, Climate Change Consequences, Social Justice on Mar 17th, 2009
The Republic of Maldives — a bevy of coral atolls in the Indian Ocean that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels — is becoming the change it wishes to see in the world by pledging to become the world’s first carbon neutral nation. President Mohamed Nasheed says that his country will [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, UK, USA on Mar 16th, 2009
We have to change the terminology; according to scientists who attended the International Climate Change Congress in Copenhagen, the phrases “climate change” and “global warming” need to be retooled to better represent the stark reality that we are now facing. A climate catastrophe — or climate breakdown — would seem to be better choices for [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Politics on Mar 16th, 2009
The world’s leading climate scientists convened in Copenhagen a few days ago, so it was a busy week for environmental news, and it begins with a startling report by British Antarctic Survey scientists. In a nutshell, many coastal areas in both the developed and developing world are at great risk for devastating floods over the [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science on Feb 25th, 2009
Scientists throughout the world have spent the last year research the Arctic and Antarctica in what has been dubbed the International Polar Year (IPY), and their aggregated results are stunning. Both regions are warming far faster than expected and that makes drastic climate change — and dramatically rising sea levels — far more likely. Researchers [...]
Posted in Alberta Tar Sands, Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Politics, Progressive Coalition, USA on Feb 17th, 2009
Nova Scotia is home to the Sydney Tar Ponds, 31 hectares surrounding the old Sysco steel plant that have been poisoned with 700,000 metric tons of toxic waste. Sysco went bankrupt years ago, leaving this mess for government to wipe clean with taxpayer money — more than $400 million if the project comes in on [...]
Posted in Canada, Climate Change Consequences, Climate Change Science, Politics, USA on Feb 16th, 2009
It’s only two years since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report was published, but it’s already out-of-date, according to Dr. Christopher Field, one of the IPCC lead authors. Field says that the pace of global warming has accelerated beyond recent predictions because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased faster than expected [...]
Posted in Climate Change Consequences, Media, Politics on Feb 10th, 2009
A few months ago, I was debating Canada’s sorry record on global warming on a CBC message board with dozens of people from across the country. As I wrote, a hurricane was bearing down on Nova Scotia. Several people raged at me, arguing that I was way off topic; I was told that this story [...]